Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

As with all sports rights, we put in a bid. Right until the last minute, we were negotiating to get slightly more games than we had the last time. We understood right until the last minute that there was going to be a split again between us and Virgin, but suddenly we were quite surprised to find Virgin had got all the games. We were both surprised and disappointed. One thing we have managed to do is secure the rights to the cup games.